How to create CSV Excel file C#? [closed]

Answer 1

there's an open-source library for CSV which you can get using nuget: http://joshclose.github.io/CsvHelper/

Answer 2

Another good solution to read and write CSV-files is filehelpers (open source).

Answer 3

I've added

public void ExportToFile(string path, DataTable tabela)
{

     DataColumnCollection colunas = tabela.Columns;

     foreach (DataRow linha in tabela.Rows)
     {

           this.AddRow();

           foreach (DataColumn coluna in colunas)

           {

               this[coluna.ColumnName] = linha[coluna];

           }

      }
      this.ExportToFile(path);

}

Previous code does not work with old .NET versions. For 3.5 version of framework use this other version:

        public void ExportToFile(string path)
    {
        bool abort = false;
        bool exists = false;
        do
        {
            exists = File.Exists(path);
            if (!exists)
            {
                if( !Convert.ToBoolean( File.CreateText(path) ) )
                        abort = true;
            }
        } while (!exists || abort);

        if (!abort)
        {
            //File.OpenWrite(path);
            using (StreamWriter w = File.AppendText(path))
            {
                w.WriteLine("hello");
            }

        }

        //File.WriteAllText(path, Export());
    }

Answer 4

You can also use ADO to do this: http://weblogs.asp.net/fmarguerie/archive/2003/10/01/29964.aspx

Answer 5

Slightly different version I wrote using reflection for my needs. I had to export a list of objects to csv. In case someone wants to use it for future.

public class CsvExport<T> where T: class
    {
        public List<T> Objects;

        public CsvExport(List<T> objects)
        {
            Objects = objects;
        }

        public string Export()
        {
            return Export(true);
        }

        public string Export(bool includeHeaderLine)
        {

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            //Get properties using reflection.
            IList<PropertyInfo> propertyInfos = typeof(T).GetProperties();

            if (includeHeaderLine)
            {
                //add header line.
                foreach (PropertyInfo propertyInfo in propertyInfos)
                {
                    sb.Append(propertyInfo.Name).Append(",");
                }
                sb.Remove(sb.Length - 1, 1).AppendLine();
            }

            //add value for each property.
            foreach (T obj in Objects)
            {               
                foreach (PropertyInfo propertyInfo in propertyInfos)
                {
                    sb.Append(MakeValueCsvFriendly(propertyInfo.GetValue(obj, null))).Append(",");
                }
                sb.Remove(sb.Length - 1, 1).AppendLine();
            }

            return sb.ToString();
        }

        //export to a file.
        public void ExportToFile(string path)
        {
            File.WriteAllText(path, Export());
        }

        //export as binary data.
        public byte[] ExportToBytes()
        {
            return Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Export());
        }

        //get the csv value for field.
        private string MakeValueCsvFriendly(object value)
        {
            if (value == null) return "";
            if (value is Nullable && ((INullable)value).IsNull) return "";

            if (value is DateTime)
            {
                if (((DateTime)value).TimeOfDay.TotalSeconds == 0)
                    return ((DateTime)value).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");
                return ((DateTime)value).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
            }
            string output = value.ToString();

            if (output.Contains(",") || output.Contains("\""))
                output = '"' + output.Replace("\"", "\"\"") + '"';

            return output;

        }
    }

Usage sample : (updated per comment)

CsvExport<BusinessObject> csv= new CsvExport<BusinessObject>(GetBusinessObjectList());
Response.Write(csv.Export());

Answer 6

I added ExportToStream so the csv didn't have to save to the hard drive first.

public Stream ExportToStream()
{
    MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
    StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(stream);
    writer.Write(Export(true));
    writer.Flush();
    stream.Position = 0;
    return stream;
}